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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Comma, punctuation before or after quotation marks?
There is someone somewhere else who manipulates some content of mine, and not only that, and has an obsessive, harassing tendency, but for whatever reason and with whatever patronizing "personal significance", he changed the closing quotation mark after a word to after the comma or question mark.
From: "word",
To: "word,"
Or: "word"?
To: "Word?"
Is this correct or necessary?
From: "word",
To: "word,"
Or: "word"?
To: "Word?"
Is this correct or necessary?
Top answer
Anonymous From: "word",To: "word," American English puts punctuation marks (like commas, semicolons, colons and periods) inside quotation marks. British English usually does the opposite. By the way, why do you allow "someone else" to harrass you by modifying your personal content?
- Anonymous From: "word",To: "word," American English puts punctuation marks (like commas, semicolons, colons and periods) inside quotation marks.
- British English usually does the opposite.
- By the way, why do you allow "someone else" to harrass you by modifying your personal content?
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AnonymousFrom: "word",To: "word,"American English puts punctuation marks (like commas, semicolons, colons and periods) inside quotation marks. British English usually does the opposite.
By the way, why do you allow "someone else" to harrass you by modifying your personal content?
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Okay.
It is such a site with a public content policy. And it's a personally manipulative person, not just about abstract content, and he had harassed me before and in a direct exchange, but moderation only noticed me being "disrespectful" about it and it's generally a hassle to explain to them or make them understand anything. Frankly, I refer back to this sometimes, and while I ignore hi
It is such a site with a public content policy. And it's a personally manipulative person, not just about abstract content, and he had harassed me before and in a direct exchange, but moderation only noticed me being "disrespectful" about it and it's generally a hassle to explain to them or make them understand anything. Frankly, I refer back to this sometimes, and while I ignore hi
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Well, apparently your nemesis is American, or has been trained in American writing styles.
If your site is in the UK, a Commonwealth country or Europe, you probably are correct. If it is in the US, they are probably correct. You can ask the site moderation for a style guide, or what style guide they recommend.
If your site is in the UK, a Commonwealth country or Europe, you probably are correct. If it is in the US, they are probably correct. You can ask the site moderation for a style guide, or what style guide they recommend.
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I have already said "okay", and it is not what was talking about, now is it. Please refrain from insinuations about and trivisialisation of the matter. Obviously this has nothing to do with ordinary argument or rationality, or competence and qualification at them, because it is never purely or even directly about them and goes way beyond any justification or merely proportion.
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AnonymousAnd grammar is obviously the perfect thing to focus on for disordered, manipulative people and conceited, derogatory pretenders...The moderators here strive to keep EnglishForward free of that sort of dialogue, personal attacks or vendettas.
We aim to give positive upbeat advice on the subject of English grammar and usage.
If we see insults,
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